CORK - 5

[AerRyan]

Plans to takeover BCN-ORK-BOS?

[EI-BUD]

Ryanair Execs flying in Thursday morning bearing good news. Let the guessing games begin.

Safe to say you can choose from any of the current Aer Lingus routes operated from Cork, where Ryanair do not currently fly to from Cork.

I'd bet on a Brussels link reinstating the route withdrawn by Aer Lingus. Then choose from any of the gaps that exist:

Amsterdam, Barcelona, Palma, Dusseldorf (Weeze) or Cologne to target the new EI route, Palma, Munich (Memmingen), and take your pick from Birmingham or Manchester. Ideally, they would add capacity to Eastern Europe and I'm guessing another based unit at the airport.

EI-BUD

[AerRyan]

Safe to say you can choose from any of the current Aer Lingus routes operated from Cork, where Ryanair do not currently fly to from Cork.

I'd bet on a Brussels link reinstating the route withdrawn by Aer Lingus. Then choose from any of the gaps that exist:

Amsterdam, Barcelona, Palma, Dusseldorf (Weeze) or Cologne to target the new EI route, Palma, Munich (Memmingen), and take your pick from Birmingham or Manchester. Ideally, they would add capacity to Eastern Europe and I'm guessing another based unit at the airport.

EI-BUD

BRU won't happen.

They fly to Palma already?
BCN is unlikely imo considering it would really be a summer route.
Cologne, possibly.
Memmingen nope.
BHX/MAN nope.

Eastern Europe is very likely IMO, likely a polish route or two. (KRK is continuing from SNN for the winter at least, doing very well)

[fivejuliet]

Seeing as they would be announcing something for the winter schedule, it's likely to be a continuation of a summer only route, Malaga or Faro perhaps.

[gavinhicks]

Warsaw isn't available yet to book from Shannon so we could see that back to cork also I'd say Brussels very likely and an extension to the summer sun routes through the winter, they always carried good numbers when Ryanair operated them a few years ago.

[EI-A330-300]

FR add extra flights to ACE, TFS, PMI and FAO in May and/or June. Make off it is around 21 extra flights on top of any increases already.

[AerRyan]

Ryanair have previously

[EI-A330-300]

TFS was 1 weekly last year, 2 for this
ACE was 3 weekly last year, 4 for this
FAO was a lot less but increased to 5 and 6 weekly this
PMI was 2 or 3 weekly but increased to 4 for some times

[AerRyan]

Good news, especially as capacity was scheduled to be down by FR this summer as FUE (1pw) and PSA (2pw) are both cut

[fjr13]

Bordeaux and Reus are operating this year in august,plus Stansted and Gatwick are not cut back this year in the same month.Should bring some more growth.In other news I see a second Air Bridge is to be installed in April.

[Charlie Roy]

Ryanair predictions/wishlist for tomorrow's announcement:

1. Brussels Charleroi
2. London Luton
3. Madrid
4. Malta
5. Manchester
6. Rome Ciampino

[CCFAIRPORT]

Is there a press conference tomorrow ? announcement of new routes ?

[840]

I don't think Madrid or Manchester would be helpful. The first would be jumping on a new route by a new carrier. The second would undermine EI Regional; we only need to look at Shannon to see how that can go.

I'd happily take any of the others though.

Would Ryanair be interested in Lisbon? Route supports will be available again quite soon. Couldn't see it as a Winter route though. Nice is another summer route that might suite them.

There could be potential for Milan to go year-round if they could target some skiing traffic.

[AerRyan]

Those 6 route announcements are completly unrealistic and I'll eat my hat if any are announced.

Remember, this is WINTER, not summer!

[840]

To be honest, I don't expect too much. Probably increased Canaries frequencies and possibly FAO or AGP in the Winter.

Luton might work in the Winter, but they would be largely taking passengers off their own Stansted services.

Hopefully though, it could be a pre-cursor to extra summer capacity in 2017.

[AerRyan]

My opinion would be a Eastern Europe route (Warsaw?) With a Canaries increase (LPA in the winter?) With a loose promise for more summer routes.

[CCFAIRPORT]

Do you remembered why wizzair cancelled all flights to ORK?

[AerRyan]

I do, can't see your point though.

[aer lingus]

Second airbridge was probably in anticepation of the T/A routes starting up.

[AerRyan]

With IB and more charters arriving (and as you say, the potential for the TATL flights), its likely the demand has grown allowing for a second airbridge.